The three Bronze Guild bounty hunters who accepted Old Man Lance's bounty mission locked onto the Lich's location and confirmed his identity. Without hesitation, they took action.
They paid to enter the City Lord's Mansion and became temporary servants there.
The Lich lived in the City Lord's Mansion. His identity was the mansion's head steward.
They wanted to hunt down the Lich head steward of the City Lord's Mansion, while the Lich head steward also wanted to hunt them down.
From the moment the three of them paid to enter the City Lord's Mansion, they discovered this. The Lich head steward liked extracting the life force of Extraordinary People, and he had already seen through their disguises.
This was normal. Their disguises were imperfect, and their identities, backgrounds, and accents all showed that they were not residents of Lionheart City or the surrounding towns.
The three of them wanted to hunt down the Lich head steward that very night. The Lich head steward also wanted to drain their life force that night and turn them into puppet Skeleton Soldiers.
They both wanted to kill the other side. After that, things were simple.
Battle.
The victor lived, and the loser died.
The rear garden of the City Lord's Mansion.
Louis, Dalton, and Bazel had just finished discussing things in a corner when a middle-aged man in a black Swallow-tailed Coat, his hair slicked back, entered the garden with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face.
As he passed an area planted with tulips, he casually plucked one and held it beneath his nose, inhaling its fragrance. "Miss Joanna really likes the tulips I grow. She often asks me exactly what she needs to do to raise flowers so beautifully.
"I told her that fertilizer was very important